No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
9hr ago
It's copied straight out of a pirated copy of 'Suicide of the West' by James Burnham I got from Anna's Archive.
No_one
3d ago
try to figure out what the fuck to do about the PRC.
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US can't do anything about PRC and no county save Russia has enough nukes to engage it, so what are you talking about.
No_one
6d ago
But to succeed, PE generally needs to in the aggregate sell businesses for more than it purchased them for.
It doesn't. It just needs to get more money, by say, buying back stock or paying dividends to themselves.
Forgive me for being a bit skeptical. The only time I came across PE was reading about the fate of US gun makers, where the PE invariably made things worse and their business model was basically exploit the good name of a company they bought by lowering quality and then saddle it with debt and finally let it go bankrupt.
E.g. Remington was bought for $360 million, immediately issued a billion $ worth of debt. 10 years later, 700 millions are written off in a bankruptcy, even though they sold off their buildings to a company owned by the PE group so they could rent them back.
No_one
6d ago
The court case also establishes that the RSP person of interest, suspected of leading the RSP shooting from areas not under control of the police, has been accused of- though not proven to be in an Ukrainian court of law- having been secretly under the control of the Ministry of the Interior.
You should explain what 'RSP' in this context even means.
have been easier for the Ministry of Interior to find fanatics in Ukraine, even if the nationalistic fanatics for a MOI-conspiracy would p
Are you suggesting the MOI was interested in .. shooting their own officers, making them retreat and give up ground and escalating a protest into a bloodbath ? Why? At the day in question, the snipers caused the police to retreat and give up ground. None of this was in the interest of MOI or the government.
Thus, as was established by the results of the court proceedings, on February 20, 2014, in the period from 05:00 a.m. 30 min. until 9 a.m. unidentified persons used firearms to attack law enforcement officers, as a result of which 3 law enforcement officers were killed, and another 39 received gunshot wounds. A shot from a rifle in the direction of a law enforcement officer indicates that the accused began to implement the intention to kill such employees - the Supreme Court also drew attention to this (ruling dated 08.11.2022 in case No. 446/838/21, source: https:// reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/105774898). Responding to the situation, which as of 8 a.m. 30 min. formed in the epicenter of the confrontation, individual units and groups of law enforcement officers began to independently and spontaneously leave their positions, which caused a further massive and disorganized retreat of law enforcement officers as a whole. Taking advantage of these panicked actions of the law enforcement officers, the activists also spontaneously and en masse went beyond their barricades and began to chase and attack the law enforcement forces with the use of "Molotov cocktails". In this way, the activists advanced up the street. Instytutskaya behind the bridge above it, the positions of law enforcement officers at the intersection of St. Instytutska and Khreshchatyk near building No. 7/11 (Ukrkoopspilka), forcing one part of them to flee down the stairs to the October Palace, and the other - in the direction of European Square. In the future, the activists also took under their control the nearest to the street. Khreschatyk (left) entrance to the building of the October Palace and approached the central entrance to it.
This make absolutely no sense as false flag. You are here saying you suspect this was police action. Right.
(that the RSP were protestors who were secretly affiliated with the government, who wanted the protestors to be attributed as responsible in the chaos).
The shooting was coming from the part of the hotel where hardline nationalists were residing in. It's incredibldy naive to say the maidan protesters who were pretty well organized would have let their premises be used by armed provocateurs from the MOI ? That's.. quite a claim. If armed nationalists were in the hotel, which they were according to the testimonies, they'd not have let armed strangers in there.
They raise data on how a false-flag attack was carried out, not why a false flag was carried out or in whose service.
That's your conclusion based on your emotional requirements. The snipers who fired from nationalist positions could not have been MOI controlled unless the MOI was somehow involved in staging the coup itself and actually was running parts of Maidan. No force in a situation like this is going to let armed men it doesn't know walk around precisely bc of danger of provocateurs etc. Clearly, the shooters were known to the nationalists in Hotel Ukraine.
No_one
10d ago
One of the sniper attacks on the morning of 20 Feb came from a building they had a heavy presence in, which is what this court case is about, which is also old news.
You're lying. The court case establishes that a substantial amount of people were shot from the areas not under control of police.
The conclusions of the jury court on the documented nature of the facts of the presence of firearms on the territory of "Maidan" and their use towards law enforcement officers from the territory controlled by activists in the central part of Kyiv on February 18 - 20, 2014, a significant number of such weapons and the persons who used them, which are incompatible with the concept of forms and means of a peaceful protest action in principle, found their additional confirmation during the investigation in compliance with the procedure for opening additional photo materials (Part 11 of Article 290 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine). Such, in particular, are the 46 photos provided by the defense attorney of PERSON_678 (item 93 a. 122-167) and 12 photos provided by the defense attorney of PERSON_679 (item 174 a.) examined by the jury both in general and during the interrogation of individual victims and witnesses 2-13), on which more than 25 different objects are recorded, which by their obvious external features can be perceived as firearms of the type of rifles of various types, including, with an optical sight, pistols of various types and systems, and as many different shooters with these objects among the activists of the Maidan, who moved around the territory of the Maidan freely, felt protected there, and who in most cases are covered and accompanied by other activists, which indicates the falsity of the arguments about the principled separation of the Maidan from such persons.
The anti-Euromaidan propaganda narrative is that these RSP key actors were Euromaidan provocateurs / foreign agents (of western powers) who staged in waiting for orders to conduct a false flag attack
It's unreasonable to assume people who see nothing wrong with celebrating the Ukrainian WW2 nationalist resistance among whose deeds was killing 100,000 Polish civilians are obviously not going to be squeamish about making martyrs out of a few protesters. During this court case, surviving protesters testified they were shot at by other protestors. In fact, it's probably easier to find nationalist fanatics in Ukraine than to recruit genuine sociopaths who would willingly shoot civilians from abroad unless you hired some freelancers from Mexico or Colombia.
the deterrence for the police to charge and clear the square by force.
The translated excerpts show that these people started shooting at police from 5:30 am and managed to make them retreat. And the court also states that at least 10 people were shot by them. I mean, they were even shooting at foreign journalists. They were clearly pretty nuts.
Evaluating all the video recordings and photo materials examined during the trial in the context of the indictment, the jury noted that they documented in detail from various angles information about the situation of the confrontation between activists and law enforcement on February 18-20, 2014, in particular: the nature of the presence of firearms on the territory " Maidan" and its use in the direction of law enforcement officers from the territory controlled by activists in the central part of Kyiv on February 18 - 20, 2014, a significant number of such weapons and the persons who used them were recognized by the court as incompatible with the concept of forms and means of a peaceful protest in principle; the dynamics of the change in the situation on the morning of February 20, 2014 (the chaotic retreat of the law enforcement officers, which was accompanied by an attack (attacks and harassment) by activists, and some with objects that, by their external features, clearly resemble firearms of various types, protection by law enforcement officers, as a retreating party, with the use of all available special means, including water cannons, and only then the open use of firearms by law enforcement forces; movement and movement of the opposing sides from their occupied positions (law enforcement officers - up Instytutska St. with a delay associated with evacuation from the building of the October Palace, further behind snow and concrete barricades, and activists - gradual movement in waves in the direction of law enforcement officers to the edge of the snow barricade).
The court case noted they haven't proven there was a conspiracy to carry out this mass murder and violent protest, not that it didn't happen.
No_one
11d ago
I'm probably getting banned for the Hajnali comment but I guess after I'm banned I can compose the post and let you post it or something like that. There's an entire book by a Ukrainian scholar in Canada about the topic. Can be downloaded
this is the official case file
https://www.kas.gov.ua/CourtPortal.WebSite/Home/Sprava/51176528731
and here's an upload of translated excerpts from the case file that's here
No_one
11d ago
Okay, to explain what that means, Western Europeans from the Hajnal area have this weird obsession of not being seen as improper and doing things 'by the book' etc and thus refraining from actually doing mildly hard things such as brutalizing Albanian economic immigrants by arresting them, holding them in prison camps and summarily deporting them back to Albania. That'd be of course bad for TV and so on. Instead, nothing is done but they're given a place to live and debt goes up.
Instead, the Hajnali liberals in western Europe issue half a million orders to leave and then do not actually collect the people that should leave and just mill around impotently while said people who were supposed to leave generally get up to no good and are a massive drain on finances and public order.
So you get spectacles like the small boat issue in the UK where government is paying thru the nose to warehouse illegals in hotels. Or the Chagos deal, where an island from which UK just took & deported its native population is given to a wholly unrelated island state and said unrelated (there was basically no connection between the ethnics) state is also going to get paid for the deal.
I let K2 try to explain it, actually did it better. (except for the Hajl hallucination)
Breaking the slurs down into the actual concepts they are meant to stand for:
“Hajnali liberals” – a sneering reference to the political current associated with the Hungarian economist János Hájl (anglicised as “Hajnal”). The Hajnal-line thesis is that west of a line running roughly Trieste–Trieste–St.-Petersburg, Europeans adopted late marriage, weak family ties and, later, the whole Enlightenment package: individual rights, rule-of-law, compromise politics, and a taboo on open ethnic favouritism.
In the on-line Right’s vocabulary “Hajnali liberal” has therefore become shorthand for “Western liberal who believes that decorum, legalism and self-limitation are ends in themselves.” “cuck fetish” – the alt-right slur that such liberals are like cuckolds: they supposedly enjoy watching their own country/power/status being taken by outsiders because proving their moral respectability is more important to them than collective self-assertion.
“getting shafted due to the fear of being seen as improper” – the claim that whenever the West has to choose between (a) using hard power or ethnic-national assertiveness and (b) keeping the appearance of propriety, it will let itself lose, because the appearance is what the “Hajnali” mindset values most.
So the whole sentence is just a crudely phrased version of: “Russians do not share the Western liberal reflex that being ‘proper’ and ‘law-abiding’ is more important than winning; they are willing to act ruthlessly rather than accept humiliation for the sake of looking civilised.”
Although, on a second look maybe I'm wrong because there's clearly a substantial and powerful minority which acts as if it desires the importation of more criminal & economically unproductive people - in judicial bodies & so on. But it's not clear to what degree it's something like a 'civility trap' and to what degree capture by people who actually desire large scale demographic change for ideological or economic reasons.
No_one
12d ago
Toppling a duly elected and acceptable government by force to replace it with a hostile one, to get a strategic edge is an act of war. The issue is that Russians aren't Hajnali liberals with their cuck fetish of getting shafted due to the fear of being seen as improper.
Should I post the recently closed Ukrainian court case about the Maidan snipers? Looks like a lot of people who were shot in the back by right sector guys adding heat to the confrontation did not appreciate their promotion to martyrs yo revolution, and talked.
No_one
12d ago
Russia didn't use false flag attacks to stage a coup in Ukraine, disenfranchise their substantial Russian minority and started a civil war.
Ukrainian nationalists weren't getting support & cover from Russians.
No_one
13d ago
He was and is an idiot and the people who caused these wars went on to become the only faction that matters in foreign policy circles,with the Ukraine war being their crowning achievement.
No_one
13d ago
Isn't Romney a private equity guy, one of the class of people specializing in what's basically elegant asset stripping?
No_one
14d ago
that shipping Jews from western Europe to Poland to exterminate is weird
How is it..weird?
Back then they didn't have municipal trash incinerators capable of burning 10,000 corpses a day with exhaust filters and so on.
If you wanted to turn a million bodies into ash, lots of weird smells were a given. Especially if crematoria weren't being used but pyres instead, as in Treblinka. People nearby pretty much had to know what was going on because the smells were horrible and most rural people probably knew how burnt flesh smelled.
So no, if you want to keep a genocide reasonably secret, best do it near people you're probably going to kill later too and who have absolutely no rights nor is there ever going to be any need of being on good terms with them. Poles fit that bill.
No_one
14d ago
Russians have a 12 lb light machinegun.... Supposedly developed after battlefield input as a desirable weapon.
No_one
14d ago
If you want to deliver a lot of energy on the target, the energies involved in recoil would absolutely warrant it.
Bolters look to be something like a 1" caliber if not more, meaning it'd kick like a mofo even if it were kinda slow.
No_one
15d ago
Emotionally it must have been very bad, especially the futility but tactically & casualty wise it was not a real war, more of a relatively sedate counterinsurgency.
No_one
15d ago
Sure, if by liberalism we mean something that doesn't exist anymore and has been supplanted by wokeness in practice.
Classical liberalism is larval wokeness, or more precisely, wokeness came into being to profitably exploit liberalism. There's no reason to be extra careful about terms here, both are very bad news.
No_one
15d ago
full text is here if anyone's curious
Lori Harber, third-year student at Maxwell College:
Calli is for wusses. My attitude is, fight back. Go radical ugly. That's what the beautiful people need to see.
I got my nose taken off about this time last year. It's a bigger deal than it sounds, surgery-wise; to be healthy and stuff, you have to move some of the hairs further in to catch dust. And the bone you see (taps it with a fingernail) isn't real, it's ceramic. Having your real bone exposed is a big infection risk.
I like it when I freak people out; sometimes I actually ruin someone's appetite when they're eating. But freaking people out, that's not what it's about. It's about how ugly can beat beautiful at its own game. I get more looks walking down the street than a beautiful woman. You see me standing next to a video model, who you going to notice more? Me, that's who. You won't want to, but you will.
No_one
15d ago
Season 1 is so good I stopped watching it 8 episodes in. It's just so predictable. Socialist realism. You can tell the writer read a few essays on fascism by the language people at ISA use. In the end it just bored me.
No_one
16d ago
you've figured out exactly how the world works and that they have to obey a specific list of rules otherwise they'll burn in hell is very far from neutral.
Liberals do that too except 'burn in hell' is substituted for by social ostracism and killing their reputation right here, right now.
No_one
16d ago
My understanding is that the Afghan war was quite bad.
Yet the casualties were light. I'd say it was basically nothing compared to the Ukrainian war, where entire companies in training have been halved by judicious use of tactical ballistic missiles.
No_one
16d ago
I strongly doubt that, and you're free to check on the onlyfans archive site. Most OF accounts are mirrored there.
No_one
19d ago
A lot of self-identified Marxists really do not seem to grasp the concept of the veil of ignorance.)
You don't understand Marxism. This here was written by a guy who was a respected and prominent Trotskyist in 1930s.
NON-COMMUNISTS HAVE OFTEN upbraided communists for what are alleged to be gross inconsistencies in communist behavior. The charge goes as follows: You communists call for a maximum of free speech, free press, free assembly and other civil rights in the United States and other non-communist countries; but inside the countries where communists are in power you have suppressed, or virtually suppressed, all these rights. You uphold the right to strike in non-communist countries, and very often exercise that right in practice when you are in control of trade unions; but in the communist countries it is criminal, in some cases a capital crime, to strike or merely advocate striking.
If you were able to understand the historical dialectic—which, since you are not a communist, you cannot really do: only the living practice of communism makes possible a genuine understanding of the theory of communism—you would realize that there are no inconsistencies. In every case the seeming contradictories, in the reality of time and history, reinforce each other and fuse their dynamism into a synthesis at a higher historical level. The communist camp is the thesis which represents the historical interests of the revolution, therefore of peace, freedom, justice, well-being, and the future of mankind in the coming epoch of a truly human history. Anything that strengthens the communist camp is right and just and good. In the present transitional era of world struggle, of wars and revolutions, the use of civil rights inside the communist camp to publicize opposition to the line of the Party and the revolution would only express the intrusion of counterrevolutionary influences, of capitalist hangovers and imperialist interventions; the proper purpose of public speech and assembly is to support, strengthen and improve the work of the revolution, not to sabotage it.
I was reacting to the questionable assertion that US is 'load bearing' part of the international order.
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